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Forty Minute Lunch
9 Forty Minute Lunch: Kitty Jackson Opens up About Love, Fame, and Nixon! Jules Jones reports Movie stars always look small the first time you see them, and Kitty Jackson is no exception, exceptional though she may be in every other way. … Continue reading
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Selling the General
8 Selling the General Dolly’s first big idea was the hat. She picked teal blue, fuzzy, with flaps that came down over the general’s large dried-apricot ears. The ears were unsightly, Dolly thought, and best covered up. When she saw the … Continue reading
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Goon Squad review on Futurebook
FutureBook, the Bookseller-associated digital publishing blog, have published a great review by Alastair Horne of A Visit from the Goon Squad: The Special Edition App. The novel has received great critical acclaim and recognition from many quarters culminating in the Pulitzer … Continue reading
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Another win for Egan (Goon Squad)
A Visit from the Goon Squad receives yet more accolades… Jennifer Egan was awarded with the prize for fiction on Friday April 29th, at the 31st annual Los Angeles Times Book Prize for the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Visit From the Goon Squad. The ceremony was … Continue reading
Pulitzer Prize win for Goon Squad
We are delighted by the news that A Visit from the Goon Squad has won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2011, the judges describing the book as “an inventive investigation of growing up and growing old in the digital age, … Continue reading
Goon Squad: publicity round-up (III)
Some more Goon Squad publicity to round up: Jennifer Egan’s tour of London in late March went brilliantly, with the Lutyens and Rubinstein Bookshop event a sell-out, and the publication dinner a great success. Whilst over here, Jennifer found time … Continue reading
Goon Squad: publicity round-up II
The excellent critical reception for the UK publication of A Visit from the Goon Squad continues, with write-ups in The London Review of Books, Mail Online, Independent and feature for Radio 3′s Nightwaves. Pankaj Mishra, writing for the LRB, was impressed by … Continue reading
Goon Squad – publicity round-up
Tom Shone had a fantastic interview with Jennifer in The Sunday Times yesterday: ‘Egan’s writing is remarkable for its ability to anchor postmodern trickery to more reassuringly solid novelistic virtues … Goon Squad hangs together with the airiness of a mobile, constructed … Continue reading
Orange Prize
We are delighted that A Visit from the Goon Squad has been named on the twenty-strong shortlist for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2011 , alongside Room by Emma Donaghue, and The Seas by fellow Corsair author Samantha Hunt. This tops a fantastic week for Jennifer Egan, … Continue reading
